Brazil’s Supreme Court dealt President Dilma Rousseff a blow on Wednesday in her fight to avert impeachment proceedings by refusing to delay a ruling by auditors on alleged doctoring of government accounts.
Later on Wednesday, Brazil’s Federal Accounts Court, known as the TCU, is expected to reject her government’s accounts because budget results were manipulated to allow more spending in the run-up to her re-election last year.
Some of her opponents are waiting to pounce on the ruling as a pretext to impeach the president for violating Brazil’s budget law, although it is not clear how much support they will have inside Congress.
In a last-ditch bid to win time, the government asked the Supreme Court to delay Wednesday’s ruling, but the top court denied the injunction.
In a further reversal for Rousseff, the TCU unanimously rejected her attorney general’s request to remove the judge auditing her administration’s 2014 accounts for publicly declaring weeks ago that he planned to find them invalid.
Brazil Energy Insight 
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